Hairdressing appliance



July 29, 1924.

A. H. BONGERS HAIRDRESSING APPLIANCE Filedv April 10 1923 \INVENTOR. I E OLDHBQNGZ E Patented July 29, 1924.

ARNOLD H. BONGERS, OF LONDON, ENGLAND, ASSIGNO'R OF ONE-HALF TO GAS-TON I BOUDOU, OF LONDON, ENG-LAND.

I-IAIRDRESSING- APPLIANCE.

Application filed April '10, 1923. Serial No. 631,161.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARNOLD HENRY BONGERS, a subject of the King of Great Britain, of 7 The Exchange, Muswell Hill, London, N. 10, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hairdressing Appliances; and-I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the same.

The present invention relates to hair dressing appliances and refers more particularly to those such appliances which are used for carrying out the treatment known as permanent hair waving. In this treatment tightly coiled strands of hair, generally coiled upon a curler, are placed in a heating appliance and then heated, a suitable chemical solution or lotion being generally applied to the hair during the heat treatment.

The object of .the present invention is to provide anappliance which will be more efiicient than the heating appliances hitherto employed in association with the curler for carrying out the heat treatment, and this is accomplished by so constructing the appliance that it is simpler and quicker to manipulate than the appliances heretofore employed, thereby resulting in a considerable saving of time, whilst the construction is such that the risk of damaging the hair by overheating is avoided.

The various features of the invention will appear from the following description and from the claim appended thereto and forming part of this specification.

The invention is illustrated by the accompanying sheet of drawings wherein 1- Figur 1 is an external View of one con struction of heating appliance according to the lnvention, a

F igure 2 is an end view thereof,

Figure 3 is a longitudinal section thereof,

end 3 and the tube 2 does not extend quite to such closed end, "whilst the mouth of tube 2 carries a flanged member or plate 4 which closes the annular space. between tube 2 and easing 1. The inner edge of the plate 4 is provided with a U shaped radial slot 5 to accommodate the strand of hair entering the appliance. The tube- 2 may be of uniform diameter as shown, but if desired the end portion thereof may be of slightly greater diameter than the remaining portion, whereby slot 5 may extend closer to the outer casing 1 than in the construction illustrated. A portion of tube 2 adjacent to plate 4 is provided with a number of perforations 7 For closing the mouth of the tube 2 with the coiled strand of hair therein is provided a cover 8 having a slot 5 adapted to register with slot 5 in plate 4, said cover being faced with a disc 9 of india rubber or other suitable packing material which extends across slot 5 and serves to produce an air tight closure and any suitable means are provided for clamping said cover when desired upon the open end of the appliance. Preferably however, a pair of links 10 are pivoted to the opposite points of the edge. of the cover 8 and are pivoted at. their other ends to arms 11 pivoted to opposite points of the medial portion of casing 1. These arms 11 are connected together at their free ends by a curved bridge piece 12 partly encircling casing 1 and the pivots 13 for links 10 are disposed between bridge piece 12 and pivots 14 of arms 11, so that movement of bridge piece 12 relative to casing 1 causes longitudinal movement of links 10 which either presses cover 8 against, or removes it from, the end of the appliance. When cover 8 is removed from the end of the appliance it can be swung clear of the end of the appliance into the position shewn in dotted lines. The cover 8 may be provided on its rim' with a finger piece 15 by which it may be moved into and out of position in regard to the front end of the appliance. If desired the links 10 may be divided into two parts hinged together near their front ends, so that the cove-r 8 may be swung clear of the appliance without angular movement of the main parts of the links 10 (Figure 4), r V

The inner end oftube 2 is closed by plate 16 provided with a vapour discharge tube 17 projecting from the casing 1, and the end of said tube may be formed as a hook 18, Tube 2 is held in position by'nut 19 screwed on tube 18 and bearing against the end of easing 1, which end may consist of a removable plate. The space between the ends of tube 2 and easing 1 is packed with non-inflammable absorbent material 20, as silicon cotton, and similarly with the annular space between casing .1 and tube. 2 as far as the perforations 7 in the latter. Covering the perforations there may be a wrapping 21 of asbestos string, although any other porous non-inflammable material may be used for this purpose, or the tube may be left unwrapped.

The space between the end plate 16 of the tube 2 and the end of easing 1 communicates with the exterior of the casing so that a suitable solution or'lotion may be poured into the appliance. The liquid may be injected, preferably by a syringe, and owing to the absorption of the liquid by the packing 20 the advantage will be obtained that there will be no free liquid in the appliance. Preferably there is provided either inside (asshown) or outside the casing, a tube 22 which communicates at one end with said space and terminates at the other end in an inlet nipple 23 located towards the open end of the appliance. Such nipple 23 may be screw threaded so that a screw threaded pump nozzle or other filling device, or cap 26 may be fastened thereon as and when desired. I

Upon the rear end of theappliance is fitted a heater which may consist of an annular casing or sleeve 24 containing a heating means such as an electric heating coil, and preferably such heating device is slidable on and 013? of the appliance as desired. Means such as a clamping screw 25 holds it in position upon the appliance. This heater vapourizes the liquid in the packing 20 and the vapour passes through perforations 7 into tube 2 when it acts upon the coiled strand of hair to impart permanency to the curl thereof.

As theheating device is at some distance from the hair, there is no risk of the hair being heated above 100 C. (the boiling point of the water in the solution or lotion) whilst should all the lotion become evaporated a long time would elapse before the hair would become excessively heated. Complete evaporation of the lotion is indicated when vapour ceases to issue from the tube 17. A piece of cotton wool or other absorbent material may be placed on hook 18 to absorb any liquid ejected from the appliance, as

might be caused by the boiling of any liquid introduced into the appliance in excess of that required to saturate the absorbent packing 20 thereof.

It should be understood that the invention is not limited to the constructional embodiment of same herein described by way of example, as other constructions may obviously be devised within the scope of the appended claims. For example the heating apparatus might be adapted to carry out merely a dry heating of the hair instead of a vapour heating, in which case the liquid containing space in the appliance would be omitted thus dispensing with the need for the whole or part of the outer casing 1. With such an arrangement the heater 24: might be provided at any desired position along the tube 2.

What I claim is 1. An appliance of the kind set forth comprising a heating chamber adapted to receive a coiled strand of hair, a cap adapted to cover the mouth of said chamber, link means connecting said cap to the body of said appliance and permitting lateral movement of same in regard to the mouth of the appliance, and means for moving said cover to seal said mouth.

2. An appliance of the kind set forth comprising a heating chamber adapted to receive a coiled strand of hair, a cap adapted to cover the mouth of said chamber, link means connecting said cap to the body of said appliance and permitting lateral movement of same in regard to the mouth of the appliance, means for moving said cover to seal said mouth, and means permitting a strand of hair to pass into the mouth of said heating chamber whilst the cover is sealing same.

3. An appliance of the kind set forth, comprising an outer casing having a closed end, an inner tube having a closed end spaced from the closed end of the outer casing and perforated only near its opposite end, means closing the annular space between said casing and tube at the ends opposite to their closed ends, absorbent packing material in the annular space between said casing and tube and in the space between their closed ends, a heater upon the outer casing near its closed end, and a closure for the mouth of said inner tube permitting passage of a coil of hair therethrough.

4. An appliance as set forth in claim 3, including on the closed end of the inner tube a Vapour discharge tube communicating with the interior of said inner tube and pro-- jecting through the closed end of the outer casing.

5. An appliance as set forth in claim 3, including a capped filling nozzle on said outer casing at a point intermediate between the ends of the inner tube, and a liquid filling tube leading from the space between the closed ends of the inner tube and outer casing to said filling nozzle.

6. An appliance of the kind set forth, comprising a heating chamber adapted to receive a coiled strand of hair, a cap adapted to cover the mouth of said chamber, a pair of links pivotally connecting said cap to the medial portion of the appliance and movable laterally of the appliance, and means for moving said links longitudinally of the appliance, whereby said cap may be drawn tightly against and removed from the mouth of said chamber.

7. A11 appliance of the kind set forth, comprising a heating chamber adapted to receive a coiled strand of hair, a cap adapted to cover the mouth of said chamber, a resilient packing disc on the operative surface of said cap, and a notch in the peripheral portion of said cap but not in said disc, a pair of links pivotally connecting said cap to the medial portion of the appliance and movable laterally of the appliance, and means for moving said links longitudinally of the appliance, whereby said cap may be drawn tightly against and removed from the mouth of said chamber.

8. An appliance of the kind set forth, comprising a heating chamber adapted to receive a coiled strand of hair, a cap adapted to cover the mouth of said chamber, a pair of links pivotally connecting said cap to the medial portion of the appliance and movable laterally of the appliance, and means for moving said links longitudinally of the appliance, whereby said cap may be drawn tightly against and removed from the mouth of said chamber, said means including a pair of arms pivotally mounted on the body of the appliance, pivots for said arms on said body, and pivots for said links on said arms intermediate the first mentioned pivots and the remote portions of said arms.

9. An appliance of the kind set forth, comprising a heating chamber adapted to receive a coiled strand of hair, a cap adapted to cover the mouth of said chamber, a pair of links pivotally connecting said cap to the medial portion of the appliance and movable laterally of the appliance, and means for moving said links longitudinally of the appliance, whereby said cap may be drawn tightly against and removed from the mouth of said chamber, said means including a pair of arms pivotally mounted on the body of the appliance, pivots for said arms on said body, pivots for said links on said arms intermediate the first mentioned pivots and the remote portions of said arms, and a bridge piece connecting the portions of said arms remote from the pivots and partially embracing the body of the appliance.

10. An appliance of the kind set forth comprising a heating chamber adapted to receive a coiled strand of hair, a cap adapted to cover the mouth of said chamber, a pair of divided links hinged towards said cap and pivotally connecting said cap to the medial portion of the appliance and movable laterally of the appliance, and means for moving said links longitudinally of theappliance, whereby said cap may be drawn tightly against and removed from the mouth of said chamber.

11. An appliance of the kind set forth, comprising an outer casing having a closed end, an inner tube having a closed end spaced from the closed end of the outer casing and perforated only near its opposite end, means closing the annular space between said casing and tube at the ends opposite to their closed ends, absorbent packing material in.

ing said cover to seal said mouth.

12. An appliance of the kind set forth, comprising in combination a tubular outer casing closed and open at its opposite ends, a spaced inner tube also closed and open at its opposite ends, the mouths of said casing and tube being joined and their closed ends spaced apart, perforations in said inner tube adjacent its mouth, an absorbent packing between the remaining parts of said tube and easing, a passage for the supply of liquid to said packing, a vapour outlet passage communicating with said inner tube, heating means on said casing removed from its mouth, and closure means for the mouth of said inner tube adapted to permit the passage of a strand of hair.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ARNOLD H. BONGERS. l/Vitnesses CHARLES S. PARsoNs, A. B. T'oMKINs. 

